Once again, the Americans had shown the value of their undeniable technological lead in weapons systems.

It may be tempted to re-invest in more R&D to gain another technological lead.

Despite a wide technological lead, Americans have been excluded from an industry that Tokyo has sought to reserve for domestic companies.

Although Informix took a technological lead in the database software market, product releases began to fall behind schedule by late 1996.

But none of the major producing nations has an overall technological lead.

He had, once more, the technological lead which for a while had been threatened.

Can the United States turn the tide and regain its technological lead?

But why should American consumers be penalized to protect companies that have thrown away much of the enormous technological lead they once enjoyed?

In the 1980s the company started a campaign to meet the "challenge of microelectronics" and to take over the technological lead.

But slim technological leads can be lost - just look at Netscape's current market share - with devastating results.